1. For myself. 2. The choice to live for no one else. 3. Grown from
rocky soil, then hunted. 4. Body relives the past until a better
outcome's achieved-being owned, then being properly released. 5.
Stutters between comforting, or a desire to smother and start again. 6.
Escape route from New York City was overgrown for years. 7. American
flag hisses. Broke and hooked on blackouts doesn't work. 8. And
letting your definition be told by something else is the gateway sin.
9. Before one remembers, starts to heal, brutality's a way to cope. 10.
When Body's been intimate with pain, it takes to the highway with an
impulse to burn. 11. Cotton hugs the wet skin, turning-slowly-white to
blinding heat. 12. Shovel poses under pine tree, marks the grave where
memory plays dead. 13. Reaction to abuse manifests in treating men like
kings. 14. Family dialect has no word for Rescue. They say,
"Survive." 15. For the girl taking off her clothes in the apple
orchard. 16. She's doing nothing wrong.